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Emily Dickinson

SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
edited August 2010 in General Banter
She is one of my favourite poets - and made all the better now that I know that all her poems can be sung.....


.....to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas.

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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited August 2010
    The same cannot be said of Keats, Byron or Blake......

    Thank goodness.....!!:lol:
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited August 2010
    Try it with her most famous poem. It adds a new dimension:

    Because I could not stop for Death,
    He kindly stopped for me;
    The carriage held but just ourselves
    And Immortality.
    We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
    And I had put away
    My labor, and my leisure too,
    For his civility.
    We passed the school, where children strove
    At recess, in the ring;
    We passed the fields of gazing grain,
    We passed the setting sun.
    Or rather, be passed us;
    The dews grew quivering and chill,
    For only gossamer my gown,
    My tippet only tulle.
    We paused before house that seemed
    A swelling of the ground;
    The roof was scarcely visible,
    The cornice but a mound.
    Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
    Feels shorter than the day
    I first surmised the horses' heads
    Were toward eternity.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited August 2010
    Yee-hah! Wagons, roll! :D
  • TreeLuvr87TreeLuvr87 Veteran
    edited August 2010
    You can also sing all her poems to the theme from Gilligan's Island!
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited August 2010
    I don't know that one.... hum it for me....? :D
  • TreeLuvr87TreeLuvr87 Veteran
    edited August 2010
    Hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hmmmmmmm
    hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hmmmmmmmmmmmm


    and so on ;-)
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited August 2010
    oh that one! I wondered where I'd heard it before,


    right....... :crazy: :screwy:




    :D
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